May I ask a question…why is it almost everyone I know has said that? Like…Breanne…I don’t even know how you know Coco nor do I know you but you just said to ask him and then when I was saying something about it at my team meeting, another student piped in and said “Take Coco!” I am aware Coco is one of the sweetest guys and most noble on my team but…is there another reason? And the reason I havn’t asked Coco is I barelly know Coco and not to mention…he’s on my team. It’d be awkward just in general since I want nothing started with my team mates and rumors spread faster then a forest fire in our team.
Coco’s my best friend. Yeh he is the sweetest! But i say ask him, because i don’t see a reason why he would say no. And on the rhumor thing, just make it clear that you’re going as friends because you didn’t have a date. You can also use this opportunity to get to know him better. lol. just tell him that Bree said he should take you 
I can’t find anything that says the Delaware department of education has a non discrimination policy towards marital status.
However, even if they did, I think you would have a hard time arguing that they were discriminating based on marital status. Take 3 sets of hypothetical people. One is a male-female couple, unmaried. The second is a male-male couple. The third is a lone female. All 5 people have the same marital status: single.
sorry to bring this up so late. I saw it when it was posted, but haven’t had a chance to gather my thoughts until now.
Joe,
This is the tricky thing about private schools. While all three should be considered, only two of the three would be acceptable at my school and only one of them at my dance. The school is a private CATHOLIC school and because of such, they can deny things that a public school can not. As far as I am aware of…a girl in Delaware Public school who becomes pregnant may contunie to attend school until it is no longer healthy for her or the baby. I have known of a few girls who carried full term in Delaware Public Schools. My school…has another opinion. A girl who is pregnant may contunie to attend classes until she shows. There have been a few exceptitions to this rule in both cases…and it can get ugly.
The Prom is one of those things were the school has and is the final and last say. While I could push the issue and demand to be allowed to attend based on my legal rights, it would be more trouble then it is worth. My friends would think I was rather odd and it would just prove how dateless I am truly am. This rule isn’t really that bad except when you get into a situtition like I am in where you can’t find a date.
Oh yes…my school has stated that same sex relationships are highly frowned up by the school and the church. I have never heard of them removing someone from the school from being homosexual however…it wouldn’t surprise me. This is one of the downsides of attending a private school. You have to listen to ridiculious rules.
Gees… I am glad I dont have to worry about any of this… luckily BeanTown Blitz is on the same day as my junior prom so now I got an excuse out of going to it and dont have to worry about any such thing as Tuxes or dates or rides or anything of the sort 
Erin, mi amiga and my namesake, I’ve found the answer to your problem. They say you have to bring a guy? Why not just buy one of those inflatable guys, like they have at Spencers? Having gone to all-girl school for 5 years (need… escape… now…), I’ve seen countless answers to the old ‘I don’t have a date’ quandry. One person even brought her dog! It was male. It works. When in crisis, always observe the loophole, every school has one. 
I’m not too worried about going to prom, since I didn’t have a date anyways 
Best bet…find a guy on your team or one near you, and ask him. Get to know im a little bit first, and then see if he’ll go with you. When is your prom? I (unforunatly) cannot go to mine, because it conflicts with my internship @ the bermuda zoo (w00t w00t for school trips to tropical islands) but i AM going to my friend’s prom who lives on the other side of the state. (it’s kinda cool when your parents’ best friend’s son joins robotics, cuz u’ve known him your WHOLE life, and o yea then u become better friends and then go to prom with him!! yahh pat!!)
I’ve gone to prom every year i’ve been in FIRST (aka 3 years, i’m a junior) with a guy who’s in FIRST too (this year i AM expanding outside my team though, lol)
I hope you get a date though, maybe one of you’re friend’s boyfriend’s friends?
good luck
I’ve been thinking about prom myself. I’ve never been much of a dancer but it’s more that there’s no one I want to be there with. The only person I have in mind might freak if I ask so… woe is meee… WOE IS MEE!!!
Ahh I’ll get over it…
My junior year, one of our teammates had a g/f who lived in Oregon (this takes place in CT, by the way), and she couldn’t make it. So, I had read something in one of those prom-ish magazines about a guy in the same spot who brought his video camera to the prom, took pictures with it, bought it a corsage…so that his date was there in some form
So my friend ended up bringing a female friend, but taking the video camera as his date. And yes, he took pictures with both.
The next robot season, one of our teammates couldnt make it to Nationals, so we brought along a camera and named it “Virtual Bob”.
Hey! Although personally I don’t start thinking about prom until like…umm the week before, why dont you just take a friend? i mean, i girl? unless you go to a catholic school, i think that would be fine…she wouldnt (obviously) be your “date” but atleast you’d get to go and then you can still hang out with your friends. Don’t know if you’re that desperate or not, but its a thought! And if you don’t want to do that, I will reiterate what some of the others said, just pick a guy! I have met a lot of really great people by just going up and chatting with them…its suprising to find out how much you have in common with someone you figured was an exact opposite. Its a lot of fun meeting someone new…if you take a friend, you may get tired of each other too quickly, but with someone new, you can’t go wrong! there’s so much to talk about. Hope you have fun! And don’t worry, it will all work out…if nothing else…you can crash it.
a guy in the same spot who brought his video camera to the prom, took pictures with it, bought it a corsage…so that his date was there in some form
haha that is too cute.
dont worry about asking a guy. i am going with a female friend of mine (im a guy) as a friend. i didnt feel like going to prom with anyone in any traditional sense of the word, but i went around to my female friends and started whoring myself out, seeing if anyone needed someone. i offered to a girl in my school named jess (shes one of those crazy cool people you feel proud to know) and she needed someone, so, hence, i am going to prom…
dont forget your friends, might not be romantic, but who knows, anyways as a vertran of at least one senior prom, i can say it can be a great night, even with a friend…
Ugh. Proms are evil. I went to an all girl school and I was very, very shy. I skipped my junior prom, and almost skipped my senior prom because there was no way I was going to ask someone, not me. While talking about it at work one night, one of the waiters offered to be my date. As a matter of fact, he was super excited about it, and couldn’t wait to rent a tux. I was happy. My parents weren’t because he was 30 years old and undeniably gay. The same night he invited himself, a friend of mine who knew her brother had a crush on me asked him to go with me (she did not tell me she was doing this) and he said yes. I didn’t want to go with him, he was boring, he had absolutely no passion for anything, he was fussy, he was petrified of dogs and hated cats because they licked themselves in public. But I said yes to him because my parents were having conniptions over the gay man. I should have stood up to my parents; my prom would have been a lot more memorable and fun if I had.
Last year one of the students on our team asked me to the prom. He just thought it would be the coolest thing if I went. However, his prom was the same day I had scheduled to go skydiving so I told him as nicely as I could, that I would rather throw myself from a plane than go to prom with him. He wasn’t too broken up about it; he turned right around and asked Dave Lavery to go with him.
Heidi
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whoa, who asked you to the prom last year then asked my dad? This is a story I havn’t heard. And it sounds like fun…
